Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would his speech at New York's Democratic State Convention later this month be "political," asked one?
That night, having rested less than three days from his Drought trip, the President entrained for the South. To counteract Gene Talmadge's anti-Roosevelt convention of "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter, Southern New Dealers had for months been planning to demonstrate their loyalty at a "Green Pastures...
He set about it in a characteristic whirl of action. Without a pause after his day & night labors at the Cleveland convention, the new chairman sped to Chicago, to Topeka, to New York, to Washington; in July swung through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Back in Chicago, he...
Last week Chairman Hamilton turned his attentions briefly to Eastern headquarters in Manhattan, run by the Landon convention floor manager, Massachusetts' genial, bumbling Representative Joseph William Martin Jr. In the opinion of newshawks assigned to cover it. the No. 2 GOP headquarters could do with some of the jacking...
Trouble with this program was that it, combined with Nominee Landon's deficiency in oratorical fire, had failed to catch on, to kindle the nation's enthusiasm. After the strong beginning supplied by his pre-convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon'...